Metaphors We Compute By

Metaphors We Compute By January 17 2017 In the book Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson set out to show the linguistic and philosophical worlds that metaphor wasn’t just a matter of poetry and rhetorical flourish. They showed that metaphor permeates all areas of our lives, and in particular that metaphor dictates how we understand the world, how we act in it, how we live it. They showed our conceptual system is based on metaphors too, but since we are not normally aware of our own conceptua